| COPROLALIA | Obsessive or repetitive use of obscene language, eg as a characteristic of Tourette's syndrome (10) |
| TICS | Symptom of Tourette's syndrome |
| ANORAK | Greenlandic or Inuit word for a coat, used pejoratively to describe an obsessive or studious person (6) |
| ARCHETYPICAL | Replica yacht reconstructed as a characteristic example |
| STAMP | Impress as a characteristic trait (5) |
| MANIAC | Obsessive or very keen enthusiast (6) |
| FINANCIERS | Those who manage large amounts of money e.g. as employees of banks (10) |
| GREASINESS | A characteristic of fatty foods |
| LARGESCALE | Caller eg as confused when it is extensive (5-5) |
| ROLEPLAY | To perform the part of a person, e.g. as a technique in training (4-4) |
| SICCAT | It dries, eg as a ram does to its fleece, Ecl. 3.95 |
| BLANKS | Flans from which coins are minted; dashes in place of obscene or taboo words; lottery tickets that fail to win prizes; or, dominoes, Scrabble tiles etc without pips or letters (6) |
| SQUIRRELCAGE | Term for a literal ceaselessly rotating coop, treadmill or wheel for a busy dray-building tufty-tailed scurrying tree rodent, thus a figuratively dizzying, futile, monotonous, purposeless or repetitiv |
| PHOSPHATE | Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser |
| BROWSED | Rooted around e.g. as a fish looking for food (7) |
| TIREDNESS | It's about a characteristic of Bashful, and of Sleepy (9) |
| TURBAN | Off the top of one's head in Mumbai Square, it's a characteristic of the city (6) |
| AIRWORTHY | Irish person of note supporting a characteristic of good planes? (9) |
| AVOGADROSNUMBER | A characteristic of a mole: rams above-ground building (9,6) |
| SIMILE | Figure of speech comparing one thing with something different, eg as brave as a lion (6) |
